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E.L. Doctorow
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E.L. Doctorow was the author of twelve novels, four short-story collections and numerous books of essays. Doctorow wrote regularly for The Nation for more than thirty-five years. His essay, “Home,” appeared in our 150th anniversary issue. His final novel was Andrew’s Brain (2014).
Who will rule our virtual world—government data miners and the corporations in step with them, or everyone else?
For the critic John Leonard, “books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves.”
An essay for “America: Now and Here.”
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Just as Moby-Dick was too much for Ahab, our new century may be too difficult for us to comprehend.
Fundamentalists are offended when there is no officially sanctioned path to salvation.
Writers write by trying to find out what it is they're writing.
The power and sovereignty of corporations is an enormous humiliation to a society of free people.
The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.
Ronald Reagan was born in 1911 in rural Illinois.
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